Interview With Teacher of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
The United States educational environment consists of students from different cultural and linguistic background, and a classroom may consist of students who are native English speakers and students whose origins are from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe. Thus, many teachers often face challenges in adopting an effective and appropriate methodology to teach students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
This study carries out an open-interview with a teacher of culturally and linguistically diverse students to enhance a greater understanding of his teaching methodology.
The researcher uses the open-interview method to allow the teacher to express all views about the strategy used in managing culturally and linguistically diverse students. The questions used to collect the information are presented in Appendix 1.
Outcome of the Interview with a Teacher of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
The teacher reveals that his philosophy to teaching is to respect all leaners as individuals no matter their cultural identities. He also points out that a teacher must recognize a uniqueness of all languages, cultures, and linguistic diversity. When teachers enter a classroom for the first time, they should understand they are going to teach students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, thus, teachers must adopt a philosophy by respecting all cultures, and values, which will assist in respecting all students no matter their cultural backgrounds. During class interactions, teachers must keep in mind that they are teaching students from different ethnicities, thus, they must prepare to identify...
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